Posted on 02/05/2010 1:59:38 PM PST by presidio9
Amen. It’s a waste of time and a useless cluttering of the already heavily diluted news.
Looks to me like Sarah needs to consider opportunism and impulsiveness in the context of the way this turned out....I don’t mind a bit that she called for RE to be fired, but why do it in connection with a rather widely used term as retarded? I doubt that so much as 1% of Americans don’t use this word from time to time in a non-disability context.
What’s the point in getting upset over the use of the words “retard” or “retarded”? It’s been used for decades & no one has complained about it until now. I agree w/ Bernard Goldberg that this is a petty/politically correct issue.
What I find strange is that NO ONE got upset over Rahm using the F-word right before it...but THIS is what they gripe about? Are we going to say “F-word R-word” on TV from now on?
They can’t get more wrong. Rush said today that Palin’s spokeswoman called personally and said that there was never a complaint about Rush from Sarah or her people.
They didn’t listen to the show today? Or, yeah they probably did they just don’t care to report that.
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Rush said this morning that yesterday Palin spokesperson called Rush and warned him that Politico was trying to make things up between the two of them, she said that they were making generic rebuke of anyone using “retarded” and that Politico were trying to goad her into condemning Rush, media is actually making up things!!!! WOW!!
I think Rush explained it well today. This was an intentionally manufactured fake controversy by Politico as a political operative of the Socialist Democrats.
The point is the media is bashing Palin/Limbaugh for something a top Democrat said. This is what “journalism” has come down to.
Well, isn’t a retard a retard?
A brick is a brick, a cow is a cow and a truck is a truck.
Are retards some kind of holy protected group now?
If they want to persist in fabricating news items, they only cheapen their own product and tarnish their industry.
Hey, two can play the Selective Outrage Game! Funny how no one is talking about the “f_____g” before the “retarded”. Doesn’t that make it sorta worse?
I agree with you. I understand the point Rush keeps supposedly making, but he continually makes himself the story and takes away the focus we want. Quite as he himself says, he knows exactly what he’s doing and how the MSM are going to react each time—and still he goes for it and the limelight and, I suppose, the ratings. It’s just sometimes a hindering distraction rather than helpful.
But it’s nothing strange if the media is not trying to create news that’s not there, the majority of media doesn’t like Palin, in fact they hate her, so they are trying to confuse people and stir up controversy...this is a non-story except the media is lying about Palin and Rush!!!
The ironic thing is that any new term the PC police come up with will eventually morph into a new pejorative for someone who acts dumb but isn’t actually retarded.
People (especially women) who had mood swings used to be referred to as “manic depressive” back in the 80’s (especially by their boyfriends), then the psychiatric community changed the term, and now those same boyfriends are “bi-polar.”
Sorry, we won't fall for your crap.
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Agreed.
The whole thing is beginning to piss me off.
I once was named “Employer of the Year” by the Association for the Mentally Retarded in New Hampshire. It was years and years ago. They have since changed their name. But the plaque that I had on the wall was worded that way. Does it mean that the award has less meaning today?
Are the people I helped still Mentally Retarded? Well, today they are “challenged” or “handicapped.” A rose is a rose.
Retarded is a word that means developed at a slower rate, or “retarded” rate. It is not a derogatory word. The “N” word was derogatory.
Now the Midgets and Dwarfs want to be “little people.” Midget and Dwarf are specific terms that mean something. They are not derogatory.
Once I was at weight watchers meeting. One of the women was pissed because the Dr put “obese” on her chart during a check up. Not only was this woman obese, she was morbidly obese. But it he hurt her feelings, so he should have used different terms.
We really need to get back to the use or words in their proper context. And relax a little bit.
And no, I am not a retarded obese midget.
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